CrowdView – Discussions Search Engine (stop adding “Reddit” on Google)
Hey HN! I've been hacking on a project and figured I'd share it with the community. CrowdView is a search engine for discussion sites (forums, message boards, Discord, and Twitter for now). Like many of you, I find Google results to be full of SEO spam and have resorted to adding "site:reddit.com" or "site:news.ycombinator.com" to all my queries (since 2015!). Otherwise, it's really hard to figure out "what does a genuine, real life human think about this thing?". But limiting my results to just Reddit isn't ideal because so much great content exists elsewhere. Lots of great information and…
CrowdView – Discussions Search Engine (stop adding “Reddit” on Google) launched on November 2, 2022 with 24 votes, #1,136 of 3,471 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
CrowdView is a search engine dedicated to discussion platforms including forums, message boards, Discord servers, and Twitter. It helps users find genuine human perspectives on topics by searching across a curated collection of over 3,000 community sites, addressing the problem of SEO spam in traditional search results and the limitations of searching only Reddit. The tool is designed for anyone seeking authentic, real-world opinions and discussions from communities beyond mainstream search engine visibility.
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Discussion search engine
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN! I've been hacking on a project and figured I'd share it with the community. CrowdView is a search engine for discussion sites (forums, message boards, Discord, and Twitter for now). Like many of you, I find Google results to be full of SEO spam and have resorted to adding "site:reddit.com" or…
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